Legal Expert: Austrian Election May Be Re-Run

Austrian constitutional legal scholar and University of Vienna professor Theo Öhlinger says that the new complaint over the Austrian presidential election launched by the populist anti-mass migration Freedom Party (FPÖ) could be more serious than many realise.

The FPÖ candidate Norbert Hofer lost the second round of the presidential election to former Green party leader Alexander Van der Bellen by only 30,863 votes on 22 May. According to Mr. Öhlinger, a new 150-page document that challenges the election has at least two complaints that he considers “very serious,” he told Der Standard.

The complaints over the election revolve around the postal vote system that many in Austria, including FPÖ leader Heinz-Christian Strache, believe can be too easily manipulated.

The FPÖ recently announced that they would be making a formal complaint to challenge the results of the close election due to the multiple irregularities they claimed arose from the postal ballot process. Before the postal vote, candidate Norbert Hofer was leading president-elect Alexander Van der Bellen. The 700,000 postal ballots secured Mr. Van der Bellen the victory over the FPÖ candidate.

Mr. Öhlinger told Der Standard that there was a serious concern over postal votes being counted by municipal government officers instead of the electoral commission who are supposed to count them. Election results were also being published online before the closing of polling stations, the professor added.

While the court has until 6 July to decide whether or not to take the FPÖ claim seriously and hold another election, Mr. Öhlinger said that the prediction of what way the electoral commission would rule has become more and more uncertain as time has passed. Previously, he had believed that the claims of the FPÖ were insufficient to hold another election but now things may be different.

Mr. Öhlinger said that the court will likely look at how the irregularities in the postal voting would have influenced the outcome of the election. He said “as soon as it approaches 30,000, the election would probably be repeated.” He said that he had “revised his opinion” over the matter given the new evidence.

The near victory of Norbert Hofer in the Austrian election sent shockwaves through the political establishment of Europe. The European Union (EU) reacted to the news by vowing to never allow right-wing parties into power, saying that they would do everything possible in order to make sure that no populist candidates would ever govern EU member states.

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It would be retrogression to attach oneself today to the ossified formulas of the Enlightenment. Social dogmatism leaves us completely helpless in front of the trials of our times.

Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction. We cannot avoid revising the fundamental definitions of human life and human society. Is it true that man is above everything? Is there no Superior Spirit above him? Is it right that man's life and society's activities have to be determined by material expansion in the first place? Is it permissible to promote such expansion to the detriment of our spiritual integrity?

If the world has not come to its end, it has approached a major turn in history, equal in importance to the turn from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. It will exact from us a spiritual upsurge, we shall have to rise to a new height of vision, to a new level of life where our physical nature will not be cursed as in the Middle Ages, but, even more importantly, our spiritual being will not be trampled upon as in the Modern era.

This ascension will be similar to climbing onto the next anthropologic stage. No one on earth has any other way left but - upward.

In recent times it has been fashionable to talk of the levelling of nations, of the disappearance of different races in the melting-pot of contemporary civilization. I do not agree with this opinion, but its discussion remains another question. Here it is merely fitting to say that the disappearance of nations would have impoverished us no less than if all men had become alike, with one personality and one face. Nations are the wealth of mankind, its collective personalities; the very least of them wears its own special colours and bears within itself a special facet of divine intention.

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